Levi Ben Sisi
Levi ben Sisi or Levi bar Sisi (Sisyi, Susyi, Hebrew: לוי בר סיסי) was a Jewish scholar, one of the semi-tannaim of the late 2nd century and early 3rd century. Biography He was a student of the patriarch Judah haNasi, and studied together with Judah's son Simeon ben Judah ha-Nasi, Simeon. He assisted Judah in the compilation of the Mishnah, and composed his own collection of baraitot. Many of Levi's baraitot were eventually embodied in a compilation known as ''Kiddushin de-Bei Levi''. In the Babylonian Talmud Levi is seldom quoted with his patronymic, and neither in the Babylonian nor in the Jerusalem Talmud nor in the Midrashim is he quoted with the title of "Rabbi". Thus, one can determine whether the name "Levi" without a patronymic refers to Levi bar Sisi or to a younger namesake (Levi II) who is almost always cited as "R. Levi". Although Levi bar Sisi is not given the title "Rav," he was highly esteemed among scholars. Where an anonymous passage is introduced with ...
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